One hundred two years ago today, one of the most innovative and influential bluegrass musicians in the genre's history was born.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Earl Scruggs was remembered Sunday as an influential, helpful and humble banjo player who put his own mark on bluegrass music. Some 2,300 mourners attended Scruggs' public ...

Tony Trischka is considered the consummate banjo artist and one of the most influential Banjo players in the roots music world. For more than 50 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of ...

Today, Google's doodle team created an animated illustration in honor of the famed banjo-picking pioneer, who would have celebrated his 95th birthday on Sunday, Jan. 6. Friday marks five years since ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It is impossible to overstate the importance of Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly ...

Also a mandolinist, he performed alongside his brother, Jim, in an act that lasted 55 years. He continued performing after his brother’s death. By Bill Friskics-Warren The Earl Scruggs Center, which ...

Earl Scruggs, the North Carolina-born banjo legend who was a regular at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival, died at a Nashville hospital this morning, according to news reports.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 28 (Reuters) - Banjo innovator and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday at a Nashville hospital at age 88. Sign up here.

Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, Marty Stuart has just finished a whirlwind set on the Flint Hill Stage. A blitzkrieg of country, bluegrass, and rock, Stuart & His ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...